This magnificent new book by Philip Hoare takes its title from that tale, but only as a point of departure. Photograph: Chronicle/AlamyPeering into the print with an eyeglass, Hoare hopes to see a whale. Look again at Durer’s depictions of his own fingers – pointing out the great world, drawing its micro-macro miracles – and you will see them in a profoundly altered light. Hoare’s Dürer is a Columbus, a Copernicus, opening up this wide world. The revelation must stay inside Albert and the Whale, which is his greatest work yet.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2021 06:56 UTC